Lots of generalities, very few facts
I acknowledge that it is a generality. However, were talking about what is a red flag to someone, that’s typically going to be opinion based. Usually that opinion is formed by personal experience or the experiences of others you know. It will not be universal.
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A generality that if an employer observes Good Friday with their employees, it’s a red flag and they’re disingenuous. Gotcha.
You should be able to give examples of this profound observation.
Giving religious holidays and treating employees like family, what kind on hater hates on that? Just on the face level, sounds like a malcontent.
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That malcontent sounds like the true red flag
That’s not what Socko said. He said any companies the extol their religious faith or promote that they are “like family” are a red flag. Doesn’t have to do with giving employees Good Friday off. Doesn’t even have to do with religion.
All I did was explain the thinking behind that because I’ve heard it expressed before. It however is not my experience.
Here’s some articles talking about that thinking.
“Work Family” is a Toxic Concept. | HRuprise.
https://medium.com/@TheInfluenceJournal/the-most-toxic-culture-trait-were-like-a-family-a7a38f95320b
You may not agree or find it rational but there are people (including Socko) who feel that way.
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So, no examples, thanks. Not reading a story about Prince Harry, a true malcontent. Who, along with his wife, can’t get along with his family. They deserve their own thread maybe.
Malcontent in an employee certainly is a red flag in that employee, it could also be a red flag for the employer’s culture if the malcontent spreads beyond the one employee.
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As I explained, I was talking about how people feel. It isn’t always rational or necessarily fact based.
Although the company Salesforce is an example.
The discussion at the time was a several-hour conversation on religious business owners and then evolved to Good Friday. The detour came up later about “work families.” My comments were directed at the disingenuous and red-flag comments about “any company that extolls it’s [sic] faith”
My comments were related to his statement as a whole. What he said was an aside to someone else saying their companies are Christian. Not an aside to someone saying that the companies gave Good Friday off to their employees.
It also wasn’t a several hour conversation about Good Friday or religious business owners. It was 4 posts before Socko’s post and only really involved one business owner, Timmy Chan.
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I looked at the timeline, and it was several hours. Also, it was about holidays, where this thread has been in and out of for several days/weeks. This forum generally finds it difficult to stay on topic.
MLK and juneteenth are not unfair to me, they are unfair to us all. The only thing fair to us all is cancelling all holidays, then we can all use our personal time to oberve whatever we wish.
They actualy do, which is my original point. Federal and state holidays are holidays the govt is giving you to observe that, you do not have to; but everyone else is.
My point is just to cancel federal holidays so we can spend our personal time on days we wish to observe. For instance in germany, ascension day is a holiday but in a more religious usa; youhave to take personal time to oberve that. If we cancelled govt holidays, you likely would have more personal time to observe days like that…
Let us know when you work that out with the legislature.
Have you written up the bill yet?
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Is July 4th unfair to all of us?
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This just gets dumber every time I check in, which I didn’t think was actually possible.
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My kids used to whine like this about things not being fair…when they were in elementary school.
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Well when the majority of Americans can’t read (thus think) past a 6th grade level it kind of all clicks together when you put it that way
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